hmm indeed... i have had problems with maxtor but i have heard bad things about ibm , but i use IBM drives for my IDE chains and for scsi i use SEAGATE (them fast ones
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and theese sounds , sounds like METAL against metal, i had them on a Segate IDE and a Western disk back many years but my QUANTUM still makes this noise and i dont thrust it all so i use it in my cd32 for now and have a backup of the hdd on my a1200, just incase...
anyway what might have killed it is thati had to put it UPSIDE down inside my SX-1 on the cd32. after that is when all the problems happened..
anyway... IBM and Seagate has VERY bad power connectors on all later drives ;( , i have ruined quite a few this way and i hate to get repaired (fast job really , but very annoying,..)
goodluck imbe!
